Dallas Divorce Law Blog by Michelle O'Neil

Parade Magazine ran an interesting story on marriages and divorces in America.  Their survey confirmed that money and sex are the main sources of stress in a marriage.  Of their respondents, 43% reported that they squabble over money.  Household chores ranked second, although men consider chores less of an issue than women – telling since men still do considerably less housework than women.  As for sex, three-quarters of the respondents in the survey reported their sex lives were fulfilling, while 25% put their sex lives on the tolerable or terrible end of the spectrum.  Even so, 60% of the men reported that they don’t have sex enough, while 51% of the women shared that feeling. Despite those complaints, most of the respondents reported being faithful to their spouses, although 25% of men said they’d strayed outside their marriage or refused to answer the question.  Only 15% of women reported cheating or refused to answer the question.

Of the women, 44% have thought about leaving their husbands, where 31% of men have had the same thought.

Question… with a national divorce rate holding around 50% (and a slightly higher rate of divorce in Dallas Texas area) the respondents of the Parade survey must not be typical of the whole of society.